Are We Being Manipulated?

I am not sure if it is called manipulation but we are surly being robbed. I cannot believe the American people will stand for this. “Smart Fella” you are right on maybe you should be in politics?

Smart fella you are absolutely right. But I would call this situation "just plain old politics".
Bottom line, in order to raise taxes without opposition from the people, namely we the people,
they purposely put themselves in a position to do so. Mission accomplished!
Jane

It is humanly (and animaly) natural to react and be unhappy about being manipulated. Almost all human beings (excepting the masochists) do not like it. Unfortunately, that is the nature of the beast, the name of the game, the way the genes squiggle around, and the way the old ball bounces at the bottom of the totem pole. There have been manipulators and the manipulated since time immemorial, and they will always be around in the milleniums to come. The manipulators, and the manipilated, were born that way, and there isn't much that any one can do about it except to just grin and bear it. There are exceptions of course. Charles Atlas wss a manipulated being with sand ih his face until he became a muscled manipulator. then there was Adolph Hitler, who was a manipulated carpenter until he reversed the equation and became a manilulator of holocausting millions. Always keep in mind that it's a jungle out there, and at the end of the day it's simply the survival of the fittest. That is the way that the supreme arranger wants it.